STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR ENGLISH MAJORS AND PROGRAMS

Affirming the mission statements of the university (with its emphasis on Excellence, Faith, Leadership, and Service), the University Core of Common Studies, and the College of Arts & Sciences' Core Curriculum, the English Department offers a number of interrelated student learning outcomes.

Student Learning Outcomes for the English Major:

Upon completing the Literature or Writing-Intensive English major, Marquette University students will be able to:

Analyze literary texts or their equivalents (e.g. film).

Write convincing interpretive arguments of texts under consideration. Writing-Intensive English majors will be able to construct texts within specific creative and/or workplace genre conventions

Explain how language and literary works shape their perceptions of themselves and their world.

These learning outcomes for English majors build on the learning outcomes for the University Core in the Rhetoric and Literature Knowledge Areas.